Igbo Quit Notice Order: A Modern political ‘Game of Thrones’
By Rev. Br. Kenneth Chigozie Alamezie, BSS
“Only God knows how much some elites, who hid behind the curtains, paid those who made that declaration in Kaduna.”
“It will be worst for us if we allow some selfish people to push us to unnecessary war. Nigeria holds a lot of promises for all of us.
“I know and we all know that a lot of you have been excluded from the good things of this country and of course we can trace that to poor and bad governance over the years.
“But again, what we should be clamouring for is good governance, not separatism, not secession. This is all about elite competition. The youth are only being used as tools to promote socio-politicaldisorder.
“Okay, if I don’t want to be importing things from Singapore, I can use this idea of Biafra to make money and some people are making huge money from it.
“Those, who were agitating and calling for Biafra before, are now singing another tune after building their palaces”.

Special adviser to the President on political matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, was quoted to have made the above statement. Senator Ojudu is a northerner, hence the need to take seriously this revelation from him. I have always suspected that the unwarranted tension gripping the country now and caused by the eviction notice to Igbos residing in the north is politically motivated. Some power-drunk political riff-raffs are intentionally heating up the polity to create a diversion. But does it worth it, this carefully calculated stoking of embers of hatred among the Nigerian youth, simply because of political office?
The northern youth have allowed themselves to be used as a tool for creating anarchy and dissension in their own country. The so-called elites using them to stoke embers of hatred and stir up venom among fellow compatriots should bury their heads in shame. Shame on them! Like the biblical Haman, they are digging their own graves. If Sen. Ojudu’s claim is anything to go by, then those elites sponsoring this evil are nothing but birdbrains, irresponsible oldies, and a bunch of irrational warmongers and despots.
Why would any rational thinking person want to heighten the tension already existing and ravaging the comatose nation, all in the name of sheer politics of power tussle? Owing to their Machiavellian act, fear has now gripped the heart of even the least Nigerian. The feeling as it is now in the country is that of hate and suspicion, as even the atmosphere seems to be brewing and releasing the evil smoke by the second. It couldn’t have gotten to this level had they—those despots heating up the polity--recognized their position as elites.
But the damage is already done! The cries of war could now be heard at every corner. Preparations are ongoing while the Vultures are closing in. The slogan One Nigeria has been shown to be everything but true. Perhaps it was invented in the first place for mere political wingding, or something. Many have argued that there was never a Nigeria in the first place. It is now obvious that the so-called elites knew this from day one, that the marriage performed by Lord Laggard was a charade put up to benefit a section of the country. It doesn’t always look pretty when someone is being hunted by his shadow. This seems to be the case with the north. Am I now sounding like the so-called elites? But who would feign ignorance of their reason for stoking embers of hatred and discord among the Nigerian citizenry, and gathering evil clouds for another civil war?
Obviously The Throne is the Bone of Contention here; northern rule is the reason for this political bravado; 2019 is fast approaching and Baba’s fate is still unknown. Buhari’s condition, uncertain and shrouded in secrecy seems to be the cause for this sudden support for Biafra by the north. Insisting on the October 1 ultimatum for Igbo eviction and urging Osinbajo to let Igbos have Biafra could be understood. It’s now more or less a kind of “Igbos must lose everything they have up north, should anything happen to Buhari.” Of course, that’s if the president is still receiving treatment as claimed by his wife Aisha. We can understand Aisha’s position in the matter, as no one in his or her right senses would want to go through what she went through the last time she broke the Carmel’s back to the BBC, Hausa. Far from wishing the President dead, yet we all know that the Ex-British lawmaker and former military officer, Eric Joyce, who some time not quite long rumored of the president’s demise and sent in his condolence has not been arrested nor questioned by the FG. Perhaps they did that undercover. Nevertheless, why the Igbo and their businesses scattered across the nation have always been the target each time there is a little quarrel in the country, is something still eluding the mind. Perhaps it is just history trying to live up to expectation! I still remember the story of the wicked Haman and the Jews.
Amid rumors that the President is in a vegetative state and could no longer carry on with the very tedious task of governing the nation, even as Eric Joyce had come out to broadcast the death of the president, fuelling rumors that he may have died after all, the northern political leaders have found it necessary to divert Nigerians’ attention from the president’s health to something else. Hitherto, the news headlines had centered on the president’s health condition. I believe the so-called northern elites never liked that because of what is at stake. No doubt the so-called elites have been out in the market looking for an alternative junk for a replacement until IPOB decided to give them one free. The huge success recorded in the sit-at-home order by the secessionist group, IPOB, understandably has turned out to be just the tool the northern leaders have been looking for. Painfully, the same IPOB’S gift to their neighbors has turned out to be their nightmare.
The state of affairs in Nigeria, especially as it regards the current situation where the Igbo are now seen as a threat to national unity and progress, reminds me of the account in the Bible involving the Power-drunk Haman and his ploy to wipe out the Jews of the era. The same was said of the Jews at the time, that they were disrespectful, proud, and evil. Haman and his cohorts, just like these so-called northern elites now sponsoring their youth for Igbo eviction, saw the Jews as a threat to national security, and unity, simply because of their God-given ability to thrive wherever they find themselves and in everything, they do. The power-hungry elite, Haman, thought in himself that by wiping away the Jews he would have opportunity to lay his hands on their properties scattered across the entire kingdom. But God was watching; just as He is watching now. My candid advice, hence, to those sponsoring this evil agenda against the Igbo living in the north, is that they kindly sheath their sword, as the table may turn against them if this fire they are stoking is allowed to explode. God is not man; and the Igbo race, aside their claim of ancestry with the Chosen Israel, have always shown they have Divine prodding with them.
#let’sgivepeaceachance# God bless you.

nigeria should be sincere enough and call a spade a spade, the SE is seriously marginalized, if they want one nigeria let them sincerely do the needful,
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